WTF is Going On?
I wish I was a Twat. Instead, I’m back to five days a week in the office
The Romans ran their remarkable empire without any semblance of an office. Let's be more like the Romans
10 July 2022 - 00:02
At its height, the Roman Empire spanned five-million square kilometres and contained in excess of 90-million inhabitants. Bear in mind though, this was 117AD, when communication happened by way of dispatches on little scrolls attached to a human on a horse which galloped on (admittedly) superlatively engineered roads in the general direction of the epistles’ ultimate destination. It would then be handed over in a transcontinental relay until it finally arrived...
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